January’s release of the ForgeRock Identity Platform includes OpenIG 4. This release brings new API gateway features, better integration with OpenAM, extended support for standards, and increased performance.

OpenIG 4’s new audit framework now handles audit events in a common way across the whole ForgeRock platform. For example, OpenIG 4 can track interactions across OpenAM, OpenDJ, and OpenIDM. Audit logs can be centralized and transactions can be traced across the platform. Additionally, the audit framework supports logging to files, databases, and the UNIX system log.

Improved monitoring data for the servers, applications, and APIs provides a better view of how OpenIG 4 and its routes are used. Delivered through REST endpoints, data includes request and response statistics, such as the number of requests, time to respond, and throughput.

The new throttling feature limits access to applications and APIs, increasing security and fairness. Throttling can enforce flexible rate limits for a variety of use cases, such as to limit the number of requests per minute from clients at the same network address.

Several new features improve integration with OpenAM:

A new policy enforcement filter allows only authorized access to protected resources. You can now use OpenIG instead of an OpenAM agent for authorization, and centralize all your access control policies in OpenAM.

SSO and federation for applications has been extended by a token transformation filter to use with the OpenAM REST Security Token Service. By using the filter, a mobile app with an OpenID Connect token can now access resources held by a federated service provider.